Day 9 - Time Goes By So Fast!

I want to update, but all my energy is being put in the FortMac08 blog. I don't really know what exactly I am supposed to say anymore. I guess we have just been having a lot of fun. Yesterday a few of us went to the mall and bus stop to tell kids about the Dugout. We are having a big game of capture the flag today from 4 - 6. That is going to be fun!

I have been planning my tattoo out a lot more in the last few days. I have been told Fort McMurray is not the best place not get tattoos but I met a guy named Jed yesterday who told me about this place called Dragon FX in the West Edmonton Mall where he is going to get one on June 6th. He said he would show it to me when he gets back and that I can interview him, which I am really excited about. Actually I have my first interview scheduled for next Tuesday at 11:00 with this girl named Ashley who Rick met at Canadian Tire when we were going to get our van fixed (which was supposed to be fixed yesterday, but when Adam started driving it it was still very broken!)

Anyways, back to mine. I am thinking of getting my anchor tattooed up in between my shoulder and the lower part of my neck if that gives you any idea. I was reading through this book called The Tattoo Encyclopedia by Terisa Green. In it I looked up anchor and found this anchor cross (also called crux dissimulatat) and fell in love with it. It originally was used as a hidden symbol of Christianity for those who had fear of persecution. I want it to represent how far we have come and how faithful our Saviour has been to us over the course of history. And I finally found a verse to back it up: Hebrew 6:19 and surrounding verses which read:

"But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak: for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end: that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil; whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." (Heb 6:9-20)
(Read it in a different version if you want, thats the only one I had handy.)

Then as I was flipping through the book I found a section that read "Semper Fidelis" which means "Always Faithful" in latin, which I think applies well with this passage. In just finding that verse and in Jed telling me about this great tattoo place I really feel God leading me to this, which is really exciting for me. I know a lot of people are against it and there are quite a few dangers, but it just feels right for me.
Oh and parents! I need a note of permission for Rick just so he can have a sound mind because I forgot to get one before I left.

Alright so I must acutally start working now because it is almost 12 and I have a bunch of stuff to read!